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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but...

The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face...

Queer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.Book InformationISBN 9781474454858Author Glyn Salton-CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907040361Author Paul BindingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gay Men's PressPublisher Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2012 and Lambda Literary Awards (Bisexual Nonfiction) 2012 and Independent Publisher Book Awards (Anthologies) 2012.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913002046Author Leila KassirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and...

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these...

Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is...

Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and...

Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century.Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subject of...

In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244671Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 19mm

Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554831746Author Rinaldo WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Insomniac PressPublisher Insomniac PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692606247Author Jonathan KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 127mm *...

To what extent did people think they could identify an 'obvious' sodomite before the construction of the homosexual as a type of person during the latter part of the nineteenth century? What role did secrecy and denial play in relation to the visual...

This text explores what it is like to be part of both the lesbian and Jewish communities, suggesting ways in which lesbians can reconcile these seemingly discordant elements of their identity. It advocates the acceptance of lesbians into the Jewish...

The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608642014Author Brian AlessandroFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Rebel Satori PressPublisher Rebel Satori PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the...

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to...

Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces the development of...

Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who...

The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill-Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Michael Grumley, Robert Ferro, and George Whitmore-collectively represent the aspirations and the achievement of gay writing...

Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, particularly in literature aimed at young adult audiences. But young readers, regardless of their...

Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have...

"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp's simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439246535Author Robert J G LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608642021Author Brian AlessandroFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Rebel Satori PressPublisher Rebel Satori PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)...

Desire can take many forms. Hegel related desire to acceptance, Nietzsche to power, and Freud to the erotic. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a...

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakeningSteacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican...

The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. May be read, according to this Editor's introduction, as a tribute to Shakespeare, and as a belated recognition that the fantasies of romance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252031Author Robyn R WarholFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726508Author Branimir M. RiegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to...

What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035431Author Ever Kosofsky SedgwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 141g